Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Irish whiskey" in English language version.
So did John Teeling, who in the late 1980s, after years of planning and work, ended Irish Distillers' longtime monopoly when he launched Cooley Distillery.
1757: Matthias McManus establishes Kilbeggan's first distillery under the patronage of Gustavus Lambert." ... "1917: Owing to food shortages throughout Great Britain, the distilling of whiskey in Ireland is suspended." ... 1983: "We got the key and walked in one Saturday morning in 1983. Every place was covered in rubble and falling timbers. Totally derelict. All the roofs had fallen in, all the windows were blown out. It was a huge, sprawling complex of dilapidated buildings and we had absolutely nothing. (per Kitty Flynn, the town historian)
